Disarmament Groups Join 130 Nations For Abolition Of Nukes

By J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) – Civil society disarmament groups threw in their weight for ushering in a world free of the atomic arsenal of mass destruction as more than 130 nations gathered on March 27 at the United Nations headquarters in New York to participate in the first round of five-day negotiations aimed at achieving a treaty banning nuclear weapons in international law. The second round is scheduled for June 15 to July 7, 2017.

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2020 NPT Review Conference Needs Innovative Strategies

By Jayantha Dhanapala

“ . . . and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” – Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

Note: The first Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will meet from May 2 to 12, 2017 in Vienna, Austria. Following the text of a Policy Brief Jayantha Dhanapala – a former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, and a former Ambassador of Sri Lanka – did for the Asia Pacific Leaders Network (APLN) middle of March 2017. It is being reproduced with the permission of the author who currently serves as the 11th President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, These are his personal views.

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Nukleare Abrüstung ist ein Gebot der Humanität

 Von Dr. J. Enkhsaikhan

Dr. J. Enkhsaikhan ist Vorsitzender der NGO Blue Banner und ehemaliger Ständiger Vertreter der Mongolei bei den Vereinten Nationen in New York und Wien. Dieser Artikel kommt im Vorfeld der beiden Sitzungen der UN-Generalversammlung –  geplant für den 27. März bis 31. März 2017 und den 15. Juni bis 07. Juli 2017 um ein „rechtlich bindendes Instrument zum Verbot von Atomwaffen zu verhandeln, was dann zu ihrer völligen Beseitigung führt“.

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A Dark Shadow Looms Large Over UN Talks On Abolishing Nukes

联合国废除核武器会谈隐现忧患

【华盛顿特区IDN＝Rodney Reynolds】

联合国大会193个会员国将于今年3月和6月举行两次重要会议，预计这两次会议对于全球无核化的进展至关重要。

来自瑞典斯德哥尔摩国际和平研究所（SIPRI）的裁军、军备控制和防扩散项目主任塔里克·拉乌夫（Tariq Rauf）说：“ 我们为无核化所做的努力是否将在2017年成为另一种形式的 ‘假新闻’？关于是否能在2017年实现无核化，我们拭目以待。”塔里克·拉乌夫主任对此持怀疑态度。

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Nuclear Disarmament Is Humanity’s Common Cause

｜視点｜核軍縮は人類共通の大義

【ウランバートル（モンゴル）IDN-INPS＝J・エンクサイハン博士】

非核兵器保有国には、核兵器保有国に対してその核政策の変更を迫る根拠がないという考えもある。しかし、近年３次にわたって開かれた「核兵器の人道的影響に関する国際会議」（２０１３年のオスロ会議、２０１４年のナヤリット会議、２０１５年のウィーン会議）が改めて明確に示したように、意図的なものか否かにかかわらず、核兵器の爆発が起これば、壊滅的な帰結を引きおこし、気候、遺伝子その他広範な分野にわたって破壊的な影響をもたらすことになる。

もちろん、このような事態は、さらなる連鎖反応を引きおこすことになる。従って、グローバルな核軍縮は、核兵器保有国とその同盟国だけの排他的な領域ではあり得ない。さらに、核不拡散条約（NPT）第６条は、「核軍備競争の早期の停止及び核軍備の縮小に関する効果的な措置につき、誠実に交渉を行うこと」を全ての加盟国に義務づけている。非核兵器地帯の創設は、核不拡散対策を促進し、さらなる信頼醸成に資する具体的な地域的措置のひとつである。

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Nuclear Disarmament, Trump and the Nordic Countries

By Lowana Veal

REYKJAVIK (IDN) – When asked what Sweden thought the Trump Administration should do by way of contributing to nuclear disarmament, the Swedish ambassador in Iceland, Bosse Hedberg, replied: “At this point in time, I am not aware of any common Nordic position being prepared in response to the new U.S. administration’s view on this issue. As one can gather from the media, the new president seems rather inclined to invest more in U.S. nuclear capacities than in scrapping part of U.S. weapons.”

Sweden was the only Nordic country to attend the UNOG Conference on Disarmament held March 21-22 in Geneva, although Finland and Norway are also members. [P41]  JAPANESE TEXT VERSON PDF |  KOREAN TEXT VERSON PDF

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Nuclear Disarmament, Trump and the Nordic Countries

By Lowana Veal

REYKJAVIK (IDN) – When asked what Sweden thought the Trump Administration should do by way of contributing to nuclear disarmament, the Swedish ambassador in Iceland, Bosse Hedberg, replied: “At this point in time, I am not aware of any common Nordic position being prepared in response to the new U.S. administration’s view on this issue. As one can gather from the media, the new president seems rather inclined to invest more in U.S. nuclear capacities than in scrapping part of U.S. weapons.”

Sweden was the only Nordic country to attend the UNOG Conference on Disarmament held March 21-22 in Geneva, although Finland and Norway are also members. [P41] JAPANESE TEXT VERSON PDF  | KOREAN TEXT VERSON PDF

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We Must Succeed in Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons

By Sergio Duarte, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs*

NEW YORK (IDN) – For the first time since the foundation of the United Nations the majority of the international community seems prepared to take a bold and fundamental step leading to the abolition of nuclear weapons. On December 27, 2016 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted Resolution 71/258 convening a Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading to their total elimination.

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China Should Keep Squeezing North Korea

By Jonathan Power

LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Rocket launches galore in North Korea. Colours and flames in the sky. It’s all a bit like a peacock spreading his tail.

Murders abound. Is this a butcher’s shop – an uncle, a half-brother and a couple of high-placed generals and no doubt others?

Kim Jong-Un, the president, is no Hamlet and murder seems not to give him doubts. The day after he is photographed at some event, smiling the smile of a psychopath who ditched his conscience somewhere at the top of the Alps when he was out for a hike organised by the school in Switzerland he was sent to.

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A Dark Shadow Looms Large Over UN Talks On Abolishing Nukes – Hindi

परमाणु हथियारों के उन्मूलन पर यूएन वार्ता पर छाया गहरा अंधेरा

रॉडने रेनॉल्ड्स

वाशिंगटन डीसी (आईडीएन) – 193 सदस्यीय संयुक्त राष्ट्र महासभा – मार्च और जून के महीनों में – दो प्रमुख सत्र आयोजित करने जा रही है जिसे दुनिया भर में परमाणु हथियारों के उन्मूलन की दिशा में एक ‘करो या मरो’ प्रयास होने की उम्मीद की जाती है।

“क्या 2017 एक ऐसा वर्ष होगा जिसमें परमाणु हथियारों पर प्रतिबंध लगाये जाते देखा जाएगा या क्या इस लक्ष्य को हासिल करने के प्रयास “फर्जी ख़बर” में तब्दील हो जाएंगे, यह देखने वाली बात होगी?” यह बात निरस्त्रीकरण, शस्त्र नियंत्रण एवं अप्रसार कार्यक्रम के निदेशक, तारिक रऊफ ने स्टॉकहोम इंटरनेशनल पीस रिसर्च इंस्टीट्यूट (एसआईपीआरआई) में संशय के साथ कही।

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